She is far and away KPIX's most popular personality, receiving an avalanche of daily e-mail, personal appearance requests, and loving adulation from an abundantly loyal, adoring male audience base.She is Roberta Gonzales, weather woman extraordinaire, frequent Facebook fanatic, and looks to die for, which isn't such a bad deal as long as TV is a visual medium.
She's also, I'm told, heavily loathed by the newsroom boss, perhaps because her enormous Q rating and style drives most of CBS5's various news shows.
What many people don't know about Gonzales: her monumental charity work for kids and underprivileged children, being a full-time mother for two kids while juggling a pretty hectic schedule, and yes, Roberta is married to Sharks play-by-play TV broadcaster, Randy Hahn.
NOTES: The fallout from the Dave Guingona firing at KRON is but the latest incident to affect the already toxic atmosphere inside the newsroom at 1001 Van Ness. Many staffers, understandably, are on edge, (again) as Guingona's ouster, (after 28 years at the helm) proves no one is safe. This, all the while, when certain less qualified VJ's get preferential treatement from a news management dept. universally detested by most of the staff, but that's not news...I neglected to mention that "da loya", Len Tillem, is also Jewish, (big deal), and part of KGO Radio's weekday line-up, but keep in mind Tillem talks the law, not Middle East conflicts, last I checked...Ego aside, it's funny that I was the only guy locally that reported on the Guingona firing, while many out-of-town trades, (including Newsblues(pay wall) picked up the story. Your fine SF-area media on top of things...The showoff radio reporter who thinks he's bigger than god needs to know the staff at Grumpy's isn't impressed, (tone it down)...Speaking of weather guessers, those of you who write to say I'm hypocritical about praising Christina Loren and her loveliness, (Roberta too) while ripping into the you-know-who's, big difference: the others have a certain 'tude and can't differentiate between what we want and the way we want it--Loren, and Gonzales too, simply get it. 'Nuff said...I like Christine Craft on KGO every now and then, but her downright nastiness toward some callers is not nice even though many are a pain in the tuchas...Chris Townsend will continue both pre-and post-game duties for the A's on KTRB while the future of the radio station remains murky, but all signs indicate the A's will eventually take control of the 860 AM frequency...A voice I'd love to hear a lot more at KGO: Peter B. Collins...Gene Burns is said to be recovering after an extended hospital stay. KGO people are not talking long-term about his status, but from this observer, it appears that Burns may well be done as a full time host at the radio station, with Pat Thurston taking over--didn't I say that recently?
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